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Random Thursday: Delusioned Optics, Painted Pentatonix, and Sky Tents

Random Thursday (ˈrandəm ˈTHərzdā): the day on which Sarah plunks down all the odd bits and pieces she’s been sent by friends or has otherwise stumbled upon this week in an effort to avoid writing a real post, the assembly of which usually ends up taking twice as much time as sitting down and creating actual content.

Happy birthday, Dad!

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Don’t Stare

Or they’ll stop moving.

My friend Siobhan used to love those 3-D Hidden Magic Picture illusions that were all the rage when we were in college.

I mean the rage part literally, because I could never see the dolphin or flying birds or whatever the heck was supposed to materialize in those patterns of random dots, and I still suspect it was a giant Emperor’s New Poster hoax.

Siobhan, because she’s evil, made it into a Thing, and has been shoving optical illusions at me ever since.

That’s a long dang time.

Last week, she sent me a link to the Mighty Optical Illusions website, which is full of static images that seem to move, presumably because the human brain hasn’t quite worked out how to communicate with its eyeballs, yet.

Or maybe vice versa. I’m a librarian, not a neuro-opthamologist.

Moillusions.com would be my new favorite Time Suck, except I can’t stay there for longer than ten minutes without getting dizzy.

Okay, dizzier.

Oh, hush.

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Captain Elsa

Artist Elsa Rhae bought a skin painting kit a little over a year ago and started experimenting.